A group of Mohawk Indians have cut off a major Canadian rail link in a dispute over land. The protesters parked a bus over tracks on the line between the cities of Toronto and Ottawa. Fire crews and police are at the site, which the Mohawks say they intend to occupy for 48 hours. The national rail company says it has a court order to break up the protest. But in the meantime it has had to use buses to transport its passengers. The demonstrators set up a camp and lit a fire. They say they want the provincial government to close a gravel quarry which they say is on Mohawk land. Protest leader Shawn Brant said their action was an attempt to speed up negotiations on the dispute. "It is one that has come out of frustration. There are no other avenues to pursue," he said. Canadian National Railway said it runs 25 freight trains and 22 passenger trains a day on the track. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk

A strong earthquake rocked a part of southern Chile Saturday that has been hit by hundreds of tremors in the last three months that may be related to the birth of an undersea volcano. The government's Emergency Bureau said preliminary reports indicate there were no victims or major damage in the sparsely populated area located in the Aysen Fjord, about 1,700 miles south of Santiago. The quake struck at 1:53 p.m. with a magnitude of 6.2, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There was some panic in Puerto Chacabuco and Puerto Aysen, the towns closest to the affected area, said Regional Gov. Viviana Betancourt. Electric power and telephone services were briefly interrupted in both cities and there was a minor landslide on a hill near Puerto Aysen, slightly damaging two houses. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3064484

A British journalist and his Kenyan producer have been released without charge after being arrested by anti-terror police in Kenya. Dan Edge, 29, of Northamptonshire, and Susan Karumba, 27, were arrested on Friday as they filmed in Nairobi. The pair were released after the British High Commissioner, Adam Wood, became involved. They were making a film for Channel 4's Dispatches programme about the arrests of Islamists in Kenya. Mr Edge and Ms Karumba were taken to two separate police stations at 0800 on Friday (0600 BST) after they filmed outside a police station in the capital of the East African nation. A spokeswoman for Channel 4 said they pair had been released after being interviewed as terror suspects. She said they were both in good health and no further action will be taken against them. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6580481.stm

The family of the pilot killed Saturday watched as his F/A-18 Hornet crashed in the final minutes of a U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision-flying team air show, Lt. Commander Anthony Walley said Saturday."Our squadron, and the entire U.S. Navy, are grieving the loss of a great American, a great naval officer, and most of all, a great friend," Walley said at a nighttime news conference in Beaufort, South Carolina.The name of the pilot and information about him were being withheld for 24 hours, per a Department of Defense policy.A Navy statement said the aviator had been on the team for two years -- and it was his first as a demonstration pilot. The accident was under investigation, the statement said. The jet crashed about 4 p.m. about three miles from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, which was hosting the two-day show, Walley said....http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/blueangels.crash/index.html?eref=rss_us

One night last month, 100 Jewish settlers marched down the main road here with little more than a stack of sleeping bags and claimed a vacant four-story building in the middle of an Arab neighborhood. When an Israeli officer arrived to investigate, they handed him papers that they said proved they were the new rightful owners. After he left, they danced and sang to celebrate the first major compound that Jews had acquired in the ancient city of Hebron in two decades. Spring 2007 was not expected to be a time of settler assertion. After the evacuation of 9,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza 20 months ago, Ehud Olmert was elected prime minister on a platform that included removing thousands more settlers from the West Bank and an end to the occupation of large swaths of that territory. ...http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/world/middleeast/22settlers.html?ex=1334894400&en=652f6ba764f1bb84&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Algeria's prime minister renewed on Saturday criticism of a U.S. embassy alert about possible imminent attacks in the capital, Algiers, saying it was unacceptable interference in the country's affairs. A warden notice issued to U.S. expatriates on April 14 said there might be attacks planned for that day in Algiers, a move that caused alarm in the city just three days after suicide bombs killed 33 people in the Algerian capital."This is not acceptable, this is not moral and this is not diplomatic," Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem said in an interview on state television.Belkhadem, echoing comments from many Algerians, expressed concern about the details given in the alert, which cited unconfirmed information suggesting attacks might happen at the main post office and state television offices....http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070421/ts_nm/algeria_usa_dc